About the Authors

Anjana Welikala

Contributed equally to this work with: Anjana Welikala, Shailesh Desai

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

gyaneshwer.chaubey@bhu.ac.in (GC); anjana@ibmbb.cmb.ac.lk (AW); ruwa@ibmbb.cmb.ac.lk (RR)

Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Shailesh Desai

Contributed equally to this work with: Anjana Welikala, Shailesh Desai

Roles Formal analysis, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Cytogenetics Laboratory, Department of Zoology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

Amali Fernando

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Joanne Kotelawala

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Lakshika Jayasekara

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Prajjval Pratap Singh

Roles Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Cytogenetics Laboratory, Department of Zoology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

Anoma Jayasoma

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Jose Antonio Urban Aragon

Roles Data curation, Software

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Cummings Life Science Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

David Witonsky

Roles Data curation, Software

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Cummings Life Science Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Niraj Rai

Roles Writing – review & editing

Current address: Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences, Hasanganj, Lucknow, India.

Affiliation CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India

Kumaraswamy Thangaraj

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India

Maanasa Raghavan

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Cummings Life Science Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Gamini Adikari

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Postgraduate Institute of Archaeology, University of Kelaniya, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Kamani H. Tennekoon

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Gyaneshwer Chaubey

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

gyaneshwer.chaubey@bhu.ac.in (GC); anjana@ibmbb.cmb.ac.lk (AW); ruwa@ibmbb.cmb.ac.lk (RR)

Affiliation Cytogenetics Laboratory, Department of Zoology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

Ruwandi Ranasinghe

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

gyaneshwer.chaubey@bhu.ac.in (GC); anjana@ibmbb.cmb.ac.lk (AW); ruwa@ibmbb.cmb.ac.lk (RR)

Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.